After a short while, they had dug a huge hole in the anthill. The inside of the anthill was not solid, but like a huge underground cave.
After taking a look inside, everyone took out their rune lamps. There was silence in the anthill. After the queen ant died, the black gold ants ran away.
"Come on, let's go down, it should be very safe in here.
We just need to find the ant pill, and then we can find a comfortable place to rest for the night."
Victor said to everyone.
Then he took the lead and walked into the anthill.
Following the anthill, everyone quickly went down to the bottom. The space inside was even larger than everyone had imagined.
After all, there are a large number of black gold ants, and their size has increased significantly after mutation. If the space in the underground cave is not large enough, the black gold ant colony will find it difficult to move.
After reaching the bottom of the anthill, everyone began to explore along the underground passage.
The underground space was huge with many branches. It took everyone nearly an hour to find the egg chamber of the black gold ants.
Victor looked at the hundreds of black gold ant eggs and said, "Sure enough, the eggs here are much bigger than ordinary black gold ant eggs. Ordinary black gold ant eggs are only the size of a thumb, but these are the size of a fist."
Ye Li also held up the rune lamp and looked deep into the egg chamber. Each of these ant eggs was about the size of a fist and was distributed in a fan shape in the egg chamber.
The outermost eggs appear slightly black, and if you look closely you can see black shadows inside the eggshell, which should be ant eggs that are about to hatch.
The further you go inside, the whiter the color becomes. It looks like milky white and turbid.
In the innermost area, the color of the ant eggs began to become clear, no longer milky white but transparent.
"There are those ant eggs!"
Victor looked at the ant eggs in the innermost area with a smile on his face, then pointed at them and said.
"These ant eggs were just laid not long ago. The life essence inside is still in its most primitive state. It hasn't had time to grow into young ants."
Ye Li looked at the ant eggs with some doubts in his heart, because with his extremely keen senses, he had already noticed that there were bursts of life breath emanating from under the egg chamber.
“Senior Victor, do you feel a breath of life seeping out from the ground of the egg chamber?”
Ye Li said to Victor, who is the strongest.
Victor was stunned for a moment, then after a careful feeling, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he said, "Really, there really is a strong breath of life seeping out from underground.
When I felt it just now, I thought that this breath of life came from these ant eggs, but now that I feel it carefully, this life force is clearly coming from the underground here.
It's really weird, is it this life force that makes these ant eggs so huge! ? "
Hearing Victor's speculation, Ye Li said: "Perhaps the reason why all the plants and monsters here mutate is due to this life force.
Our initial guess was correct. The source of this aura is underground. I don’t know if there is something strange under the ground here.”
Victor nodded and said, "There must be something special underground, but it should not be in the soil under my feet, but somewhere else."
Ye Li said: “Yes, I can feel that this life force comes from a certain area in the distance, and this place should just be affected by the life energy.
Maybe the secret lies in the stone temple in the middle of the archipelago."
His words made everyone excited. If there were really any treasures in the stone hall, they would be lucky.
"Okay, don't think too much. We'll talk about everything after we get to the stone temple. Now everyone should collect the ant eggs first and then distribute them."
Victor gave instructions to everyone and then walked towards the transparent ant eggs in the distance.
Everyone quickly came to the transparent ant eggs and, under Victor's command, collected all the ant eggs.
After careful counting, there are a total of 2013 ant eggs.
Victor said: "According to our initial distribution agreement, our Tofu Shipping Company will get 40% of the goods, and the three of you will each get 20%.
We will count these eggs as 200 pieces, of which our Tov Shipping Company will get 80 pieces and each of you will get 40 pieces.
I plan to give the remaining thirteen to Brother Ye Li alone. After all, it was thanks to him that we were able to get through this difficult time. It is only right that he gets more. Do you have any objections?"
Everyone nodded when they heard this, indicating that they had no objection.
They also knew that if it weren't for Ye Li, after the battle just now, most of them would have had a hard time surviving, not to mention dividing the ant eggs, and would have been torn into pieces in the mouths of the black gold ants. Seeing that everyone agreed to the distribution method, Victor smiled and ordered people to distribute the ant eggs to everyone.
There are six people in Ye Li's team, and if each person gets three, there will be two left.
Resas said, "Brother Ye Li, you can take the extra two by yourself. After all, you have been protecting us by yourself for a long time, and we didn't do much."
Ye Li still wanted to refuse, but several people in the team asked him to accept the ant eggs. Only then did Ye Li take all the ant eggs into his arms.
Victor said, "There is a lot of life energy coming out of the ground here, which can be beneficial to those of you who are injured. Let's find a deeper place nearby to rest for a night, and those of you who are injured can take the opportunity to recover from your injuries."
After saying this, everyone began to walk along the passage at the bottom of the nest, towards the lower ground for a while, and then they found a large stone chamber.
The stone chamber is very clean and flat, and is full of the breath of life.
After everyone found a place to sit cross-legged, they prepared to spend the night. Ye Li also began to think about his own things.
He took out all the ant eggs he had just grabbed, eighteen in total, which was quite a lot.
Looking at the ant eggs in his hand, Ye Li knew that the way to use them was to bite through the egg wall and swallow the essence inside.
Ye Li smacked his lips and felt a little nauseous. After all, these things were insect eggs, not ordinary spiritual herbs and fruits.
Restraining the nausea in his heart, Ye Li brought an ant egg to his mouth and gently bit open the shell.
The essence in the ant eggs immediately flowed out through the gap and rolled into Ye Li's mouth.
Originally he thought that this thing was probably some unpalatable sticky liquid, but after drinking it he found that the taste was not too bad, and was somewhat similar to lotus root soup.
After swallowing the essence of an ant egg, a hot current rose from Ye Li's dantian and was immediately absorbed by Ye Li's Yuantai. It then spit out even purer power, spreading to all parts of Ye Li's body.